On Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists published the latest edition of its Global Impunity Index — an annual list ranking the worst countries in the world when it comes to convicting the killers of journalists. The five top offenders — Somalia, Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and Afghanistan, in that order — remained unchanged from the 2020 list, though CPJ cautioned that this year’s data does not fully reflect the current situation in the latter country; the data covers the year to August 31, the date on which U.S. forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan amid a rapidly worsening situation for Afghan journalists under the new Taliban regime.
